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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

This is Why You Always Get Rainchecks

I still had Gum Qs expiring today, 12/12/12, so I went up to Rite-Aid.
I also had $3 Conair Vibe Brush/Scunci hair items R-A Q(released thru their FB page-The 12 Deals of Xmas).
You can get 1 Q per account/Wellness card/email addy, so I had 2(1 for me, 1 for BIL).

I paged through the Weekly Sales Flyer again and saw that the flash drives were on sale so I took a stroll over to the "electronic stuff wall". After seeing signs for stuff % off this week and other stuff giving $5 +Ups when you spent $25.00, I had a crazy idea.
I whipped out my flash drive raincheck I got from the Black Friday sale and then I went about buying more stuff like this......

I used $29 in +Ups to pay and put the .80¢ on my gift card.
I got back $24 in +Ups(6 x $1 Ricola, 2 x $4 Pentel, 2 x $5 SanDisk).
And those 3 clearanced nail polishes can be submitted to the SCRebates, so I'll get $6 back for those from Rite-Aid.
Basically, I "spent" $29 and I'll get $30 back(after $6 rebate).
I also have $5.26 tracking toward a $5 +Ups(wyb $10 in Conair/Scuni hair items), so if I buy another $4.76 in items I'll get $5 +Ups, which would make it free.

Those flashdrives are rung into the register first at their regular price and then price adjusted to $3.99, so it must trigger the computer to think I am spending $27.99, thus triggering the $5 +Up Reward.
So I "spent" $3.99 on flash drives and got $5 +Ups back, making them free and giving me a $1.01 profit each....before tax of course.

I had a hunch and it worked out this time. ;-)
The funny thing is that I also have a line of tracking labeled "$25 Photo Items-$5 +UP and $7.98 spent toward that goal.
$7.98 is what the flashdrives came to, so it looks like this is a Double Dipportunity! If I found $17.02 more that qualifies, I could get another $5 +Up but I am not even going to try.

There is a Home Improvement Card(it's a Discover Card really)Deal that gives a $10 +Ups back(limit 2 per Wellness card) this week. I'll probably convert some dollars earmarked for home improvement into a couple of these gift cards/Discover cards and add the +Ups into my stash as a bonus. I'm loving all the bonus +Ups I can take advantage of this time of year. It's a way to put some of that spare cash we have sitting around to use.
The local market is doing a gift card Deal too--Buy $100 in any sort of card/denominations and get a $X bonus chit to spend in the grocer's. I've been buying up gift cards to places we go anyway--Subway, KMart, etc. Might as well get the Bonus of free groceries if I am going to spend the money at those other businesses anyway, right? ;-)

These trips to Rite-Aid--OOP....$0.00Value of items....$118.90+Ups coming into this trip....$51.00+Ups used....$29.00+Ups earned.....$24.00+Ups at the end.....$46.00

*And here are my MONTHLY TOTALS*GRAND TOTALS FOR DECEMBER so far.......

5 comments:

Awesome, awesome, awesome!I'm thinking about running deals at CVS for Christmas stocking stuffers for 2013. But everyone might end up with TP and conditioner. Anna would be happy but no one else would be.

Sluggy could you maybe do a how to post on how you get all this stuff at Rite-aid? we have one in my town and i'd love to save the money like you do because they usually have everything i'd get at walmart for high dollar and i'd love to get alot of it free.. It would be wonderful if you could do that and explain how in the world you do all this :)

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